TICKELL'S LAUGHING-THRUSH. 
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Tlie Black- gorgeted Laughing-Thrush is very common throughout the 
northern half of Pegu or perhaps only down to the latitude of Prome. I 
have never met with it elsewhere in Pegu^ but Mr. Hume states that he 
has seen specimens from near Rangoon. To the eastwards it extends as 
far as Karennee_, where Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay found it very common. 
In Tenasserim it seems to he rather rare. Mr. Davison met with it at 
Meetan at the foot of Mooleyit ; Mr. Darling at Kaukarit^ and Capt. 
Bingham in the Thoungyeen valley. Wherever found it seems to be as- 
sociated with the preceding species. Mr. Blyth states that it is found in 
Arrakan. 
It occurs in the Himalayas and it has also been found in the hill-ranges 
of Eastern Bengal. 
An allied species is G. picticollis from China. 
I found the nest of this species in April on the Pegu hills^ placed in 
a seedling bamboo ; but I have doubts now as to whether it may not 
have belonged to G. moniliger, Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay found nestlings 
in Karennee in March 
38. GARRULAX STREPITANS. 
V TICKELL^S LAUGHING-THRUSH. 
Garrulax strepitans {Tickell), Bl. J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 268 ; Bl. B. Bxirm. p. 107 
Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 288 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 96. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead,, lores^ sides of the head and 
the chin black; front part of ear-coverts blackish^ the hinder part ferru- 
ginous ; whole top of the head and nape ochraceous olive-brown ; a patch 
on each side the neck pure white ; a broad collar over the upper back con- 
necting the two white patches pale grey, the grey in a gradually darkening 
form spreading over the whole back ; wing-coverts, tertiaries, the outer 
webs of the primaries and secondaries, rump and upper tail-coverts olive- 
brown ; remainder of wing dark brown ; tail dark brown, suffused with 
olive and obsoletely cross-barred ; throat and breast chocolate-brown ; a 
* GARRULAX ALBIGULARIS. 
Mr. Blyth giyes this species from Tavoy on the authority of Mr. Gould. It is so un- 
likely to occur there that I do not enter it in my list. I append Dr. Jerdon's account of 
the plumage : — " Above dull olive-brown, with some fulvous on the forehead and near the 
eyes ; lores and under the eyes black ; terminal third of the outer tail-feathers white ; 
beneath, the chin and throat white ; breast the same colour as the back ; abdomen, vent 
and under tail-coverts rusty, darker on the flanks and under tail-coverts." 
It is found in the Himalayas. 
